Tottenham Loan Deal Days Away

any chance of them taking Rocha and salteri and paying there wages as well?

So the prince is gone, from his debut, with his sleeves roled up, I saw this happening. But Taarabt looked good, he has always made an impact when coming on, looked great in preseason this year and last year, but Ramos has'nt evevn given him a squad number. I would love to see him given a proper goes on the left, Bale left back and Bently more central

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So the prince is gone, from his debut, with his sleeves roled up, I saw this happening. But Taarabt looked good, he has always made an impact when coming on, looked great in preseason this year and last year, but Ramos has'nt evevn given him a squad number. I would love to see him given a proper...

I fear, using Harry's food analogy, that they simply weren't tasty enough.

1. Da Ghetto Price - sharp urban packaging, appealing to the impressionables. Like a bag of trendy salt and pepper thick cut crisps. When you open it up, you get a lot more air than crisps, and when you give it a taste, you hate to admit the old fashioned ready salted tastes better.

2. Adel T - you're lucky enough to get a few tastes and you eagerly await the opportunity for more. However when you do get a proper go, it doesn't seem to go so well with the other foods on the menu. But you say, "I don't know what it is, but it tastes good - so it must go with the other foods!" Unfortunately, after taking time out to read the packaging labels over a boring summer you discover what it is that made you crave it. You've been MSG'd. Perhaps the flavour enhancers work better for the Brum palate. I'll bow to Ramos' judgement on this one - I hear he can actually tell truffle from a turd.

Taeaabt must really be shite if he can't get a game. He got a few cameos under Martin but if he is not breaking through then he is unlikely to do so now .. KPB .. well, I havent seen enough of him to make up my mind fully .. lets hope it all goes very very well at Brum .. at least to recoup our outlay on him ..

A shame on these two boys.... Prince being the one that disappoints me less, he simply never offered much by way of confidence whenever he played... someone who simply will not cut it in the Prem.

Adels different.... he's got it in there somewhere, its theres for all to see... he's deceptively quick footed, and seems to waltz past even experienced players.... forgive me for saying this, but he reminds me of how Joe Cole used to be... razzle, dazzle... deliver? not yet.

I think Adels still there because we all see that, but until he is the finished article, or at least 'delivers' occasionally, i think he'll get limited opportunity in our squad.

Come on Adel... grow up... it is in there.

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A shame on these two boys.... Prince being the one that disappoints me less, he simply never offered much by way of confidence whenever he played... someone who simply will not cut it in the Prem.

Adels different.... he's got it in there somewhere, its theres for all to see... he's...

Spot on. The crowds love him.

'It' is in there, much in the way 'the truth' was 'out there'.

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Reply to East Stand Danny:

A shame on these two boys.... Prince being the one that disappoints me less, he simply never offered much by way of confidence whenever he played... someone who simply will not cut it in the Prem.

Adels different.... he's got it in there somewhere, its theres for all to see... he's...

Spot on. The crowds love him.

'It' is in there, much in the way 'the truth' was 'out there'.

But then we also loved Jose Dominguez, didn't we?

Symbol does not look up to it, hopefully he'll do ok at brum and we'll get some cash back from selling him.
As for Adel the guys got talent but I get the feeling he thinks he's maradonna. Also get the impression he thinks tracking back is something for the lessor players. As such I doubt he's going to make it.

ps How rough fo I feel!
pps For sale broken glass jaw, any interested parties contact Amir Khan!

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Reply to East Stand Danny:

A shame on these two boys.... Prince being the one that disappoints me less, he simply never offered much by way of confidence whenever he played... someone who simply will not cut it in the Prem.

Adels different.... he's got it in there somewhere, its theres for all to see... he's...

Spot on. The crowds love him.

'It' is in there, much in the way 'the truth' was 'out there'.

But then we also loved Jose Dominguez, didn't we?

And Adolfo....

Well this can only benefit Tottenham because he he puts together a string of good performances and starts to acclimatise to the English game then he might have a chance in the squad. I would have liked AT to go to West Brom when that opppertunity to come up so that they could blood him into the EPL for us. After that we would know if he could cut it and we could then go and use him when we need to. Totally agree with the Joe Cole comparison and he just needs someone to tell him whats what.

a slight side track here, but could we all just take a moment in the calmness and serenity that has descended upon us since the passing of the transfer window to thahk our lucky stars that we never signed that complete and utter useless ornament Stewart Downing.

how the fuck can he repeatedly be picked and continually fuck up for england. it defies belief

Call me crazy, but I'd like to see Adel up front. I don't see why he couldn't play this role as he's got a good shot and scored a few for the reserves. He's also well built. Plus we only have 3 strikers at present.

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a slight side track here, but could we all just take a moment in the calmness and serenity that has descended upon us since the passing of the transfer window to thahk our lucky stars that we never signed that complete and utter useless ornament Stewart Downing.

how the fuck can he...

I object to your use of the word 'ornament'.

It implies that Downing has some value financial or sentimental to someone.

Lucky stars ain't the half of it.

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Call me crazy, but I'd like to see Adel up front. I don't see why he couldn't play this role as he's got a good shot and scored a few for the reserves. He's also well built. Plus we only have 3 strikers at present.

Strikers cup tied? Transfer blues? Manager at a loss?

I make it Tarrabet O'Clock!

It's taken a whole wweek to get the name Berbatov off the Tottenham pages of the news/blog round-ups and then we see a few autopsies in our transfer dealings in the last hours of the window. If nothing else identifies the disaster that nearly included pissing 20 odd million quid up the wall in a panic buy at the eleventh hour, was the choice of targets.

I've always felt a bit sorry for Emile Heskey, it's not his fault after all that people selected him and played him at the highest level and he got a lot of crap thrown at him that really should have been thrown at those whose picked him. Michael Owen was a great striker for a few years but is a clapped out shade of what he was, racked with injuries and dodgy hamstrings and then of course is the Div 1 player whose name escapes me right now. We made big money bids for these guys, thank the Gods we failed. This, like the acquisition of KPB and a number of others is just more evidence of the ability to waste a huge amount of money, and general ineptitude of a certain Mr. Comolli.

..........end of part one.

Part two...............

Our squad is probably better now than before, we certainly have a better selection of sundry midfielders but we are moving at a rate of 3 steps forward and 2 back and we ended up with the same weaknesses in key areas that were known and identified months before, including (but not limited to) the departure of our Bulgarian Iscariot. We not only did not land key players, but we did not even attempt to, until it was too late. I sure it's not gone unnoticed that Huntlaar got a cracker against the Aussies but we appaently did not enquire until it was too late. We were never linked with a DCM and other key players came in too late(cup-tied)and missed working pre-season to gel into the Ramos set-up. Stategically the Director of Football has made massive miscalculations and tactically has failed to find cover for a well anticipated situation with Berbatov and simply has not had any clue or apparently even scouted for a DCM, despite it being highlighted by just about everyone who has an opinion....apparently the expression about fifty million Frenchman didn't make it across the channel.

It's time to start now to build again (sigh) and hope we can get somewhere with Ramos and the players we have. But we should also learn from this window and decide if we want a Director Of Football and if we do, do we need the current encumbent who has so far screwed up right royally. We need to look to January now and then the end of the season soon. I really do not think Comolli has what it takes and I think Levy should replace him as soon as possible to give a new guy a fighting chance top set up something should we need it come January.

Comolli must go Mr Levy!

Finn,
What key players did we not try to sign? I'd suggest you stop jumping on the media bandwagon and see the transfer window for what it was - bloody good business. We failed to sign a second quality striker is all and I think it's a bit stupid to say we left it until too late when we spent several thousand man-hours trying to sign the sublime Arshavin. If we were never in for a DCM I humbly suggest that Ramos believes we have enough quality cover in that department not to have to blow squillions for a debatably small improvement. May I suggest that your vendetta against Comolli has nothing to do with reality - you have no idea what he does or how well he does it. Unless you have information the rest of us don't - stop following the bleating herd - you may just get what you wish for - and you have no idea whether Spurs will be better off for it.

Will be glad to see the back of him.

He actually reminds me of one of those X-Factor auditionees who spend 10 minutes declaring themselves the best singer in the galaxy and then singularly fail to deliver when it really matters.

Kevin, it's a "No" from me, son...

You know Hamish I know nothing of you and you nothing of me, perhaps you should consider that before you start bleating. I do not have to explain myself to you, I'd hope most people would see that we traded with some improvement in midfield, a stronger defence thanks to Corluka, but are now poorer up front where we knew we'd lose at least one quality striker, still have no top quality DCM and are still short a natural left winger.

I admire your optimism with Zokora or at best O'Hara/Hudd we'll have to wait and see, however our league form last term and so far this term leaves much to be desired and needs a significant adjustment; a point I made early on before the window closed; I am following no trend.

As for specifics, Arshavin is a risk at 17 million, possibly more like subliminal than sublime and doing business with what amounts to a nation of Pikeys is reckless especially for a listed company.

You have no idea of what I know or don't about Comolli's role at the club, I am inclined to think I know more than you given your post, as I read, discuss and listen to what is reported, written and said; its called being informed (as opposed to unilaterally deciding and then telling others what is and isn't stupid).

I would suggest (based upon what I have been informed about) that the reality of trying to buy players at around 10 million plus an hour before the deadline smacks of panic as a result of poor management and the club is and should be embarrased by this and prevent its happening again.

I imagine I have a lot of information that you don't but do not know what the "us" you profess to speak for may or may not know. However as someone writing on a blog, I have (an informed) opinion and I do have an idea about the outcome: I believe THFC will be better off without Comolli....I wouldn't have said so otherwise!

Gloves maybe.....

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You know Hamish I know nothing of you and you nothing of me, perhaps you should consider that before you start bleating. I do not have to explain myself to you, I'd hope most people would see that we traded with some improvement in midfield, a stronger defence thanks to Corluka, but are now poorer...

Nice

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Will be glad to see the back of him.

He actually reminds me of one of those X-Factor auditionees who spend 10 minutes declaring themselves the best singer in the galaxy and then singularly fail to deliver when it really matters.

Kevin, it's a "No" from me, son...

That's very good. Right in every way.

Finn,
I don't think I asked you to explain yourself - but thanks for the explanation. I think I see your problem. You get your information from the newspapers and whatever inside knowledge you allude to. I suspect that it is because you soak up so much of that nonsense that you feel so let down at the moment. That is why you feel the need to vent your frustration at the THFC management. It's really not their fault you were so seriously mislead. This close season turned out to be a spectacular lesson in misdirection, fantasy and malicious nonsense made up by ITKs and posted to numerous sites (this rather brilliant site being one of the minor offenders). You should learn from that. Lesson one - take it on the chin. Second - don't react by spreading yah-boo discontent with the best management team Spurs have had in the last fifty years. Putting aside the issue of the one striker we all know we're short of - it may be worth offering an important piece of information that obviously slipped under your radar: we just sold over 70 million pounds worth of players - and have still improved the squad. It's quite an important fact and should, I humbly suggest, inform you more about the quality of the management team than anything you read in the papers or on Spurscommunity ITK.

We have to ask who bought those players? I suspect the answer is - the management - that magnificent, hard working triumvirate that include amongst their number one D. Comolli. I don't know how old you are but I suspect old enough to remember when we would have been lucky to get 7 million for the entire squad. Berating bad management under such circumstances suggests to me that you're not exactly seeing the whole pie. I know we all love a good striker - but goalkeepers and midfield dynamos are important too.

PS I've passed on your comments about doing business with Russian Pikeys to the DTI - they are ceasing all trade with the former Soviet Union with immediate effect.

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Finn,
I don't think I asked you to explain yourself - but thanks for the explanation. I think I see your problem. You get your information from the newspapers and whatever inside knowledge you allude to. I suspect that it is because you soak up so much of that nonsense that you feel so let...

Superb reply.

Please don't mistake my comment like some flamin' school mistress scoring by the way.

My only fear is if I don't comment on exceptional contributions and no one else does this place will be lesser for your absence.

Harry, think nothing of it.

At the risk of buttering up the old school mistress (what a ghastly image) - you are right to be proud of this site. It is the most entertaining and erudite Spurs site on the web by a country mile. Of course you can never stop nonsense being written - but nonsense that correctly uses the semi-colon is always more palatable. (Finn, that was a compliment).

Ding Dong.

Hamish, please come again.

Ah, so it was the semi-colon that gave away my vintage, last vestiges of what was once a classical education.

HH, I agree it was a good reply, but Hamish I have been around a while and I do not appreciate condescention or being lectured to on matters which are subjective. By all means disagree, but please do not point your metaphorical finger and jab your opinions in my face as either fact or public-bar psychoanalysis. I am not trying to pick a fight here, but this is a blog which amongst other functions does actually serve as a forum for frustration and discontent, which is precisely what I am using it for; let's see what y'all have to say that's positive if we drop 3 points to Villa? I don't think any of us here are idiots so lets excercise a bit of restraint and offer up a bit of respect.

For the record I am less disappointed by the striker situation than I am by the DCM, I believe as someone said a few weeks ago we need to ask the wizard for a heart. I think that a calm analysis of the past few years will demonstrate that Comolli has underachieved (that's as nice as I can put it) with respect to this in particular.

I believe a lot of our defensive problems stem from this, the lack of a player governing that positions leads the central defenders to have to commit and be drawn out of position, this I think is the cause of some of Dawson's woes and was a few of Robbos. But we roll more creative midfielders through the door whilst also making grave tactical errors about who might actually finish the creative process.

I think Comolli is a one dimensional solution to a three dimentional problem. We will once again be looking to spend in the next tranfer window and I think I for one would like a different perspective brought to bear.

Disagree with the meat but hold off on the sauce.

I agree with the guy who wants to put taraabt up front, afterall he doesnt know how to pass so we might as well give him the last touch...